The Company
PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.
We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.
Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a motivated and technically strong Staff Cloud & Edge Platform Engineer to join our Global Edge Engineering Platform Team.Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:
Edge Compute Development Experience developing and deploying serverless applications on CDN edge runtimes, specifically Fastly Compute (JavaScript SDK) and Cloudflare Workers (JavaScript/Service Workers API). Familiarity with edge KV stores, request/response manipulation, and deployment tooling for both platforms.
Oversee and manage load balancers, GSLB platforms, CDN infrastructure, and edge routing systems.
Lead Edge Engineering design for on-premises and public cloud migration, including hybrid connectivity solutions.
Support and manage high availability systems, ensuring compliance with Information Security standards.
Deploy and maintain infrastructure across data centers and cloud environments.
Manage SSL certificate hosting, renewals, and lifecycle operations.
Handle proactive and reactive outages; own network incidents, escalations, and root cause analysis.
Work with vendors to resolve infrastructure issues and optimize platform performance.
Monitor infrastructure and hosted services; provide on-call support for critical systems.
Implement and improve operational procedures and network engineering best practices.
Analyze traffic trends, performance data, and business growth to inform capacity planning.
Communicate incident impact, risks, and mitigation strategies to leadership and executives.
Create and maintain network architecture documentation and operational playbooks.
Identify automation opportunities and improve operational efficiency through scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong foundation in: TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS, HTTP frameworks, application performance optimization.
Hands-on experience with:
Load balancing technologies (e.g., F5)
CDN platforms (e.g., Fastly, Cloudflare)
Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
Experience with monitoring tools (LogicMonitor, Datadog, Splunk, Catchpoint, etc.).
Experience with scripting languages for automation.
Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Subsidiary:
PayPalTravel Percent:
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The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:Primary Location | Pay Range:
Scottsdale, Arizona | ($152,500.00 - $226,600.00 Annually)Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:
San Jose, California | ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually) Austin, Texas | ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually) Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.
For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most impor